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PROPERTY FROM THE RICHARD MILHENDER COLLECTIONAn early Chinese Huanghuali 'vase splat' chairCirca 1730 Modelled in the George II style with shaped stiles and central vase-shaped splat with a shell cresting above with pendant acanthus, the wood a rich tone and with attractive darker markings, an upholstered seat set above cabriole legs with carved shell motifs to the knees above further pendant acanthus and deeply carved claw and ball feet with four talons. 42 1/2in (108cm) high; 21 1/2in (54.6cm) across; 21 1/2in (54.6cm) deepFootnotes十八世紀 黃花梨瓶形背獸足椅 Provenance: Sotheby's London, 11 May 1979, lot 55 The Richard Milhender Collection, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979-present Published: Kee Il Choi Jr., Guest Curator, The China Trade: Romance and Reality, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979, p. 21 Carl L. Crossman, The Decorative Arts of the China Trade: Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities, Antique Collector's Club, Suffolk, UK, 1991, p. 231, Color Plate 84 The Magazine Antiques, February 1992, in an article by Carl L. Crossman, 'China Trade Furniture', pp. 336-337, Pl. IX Christie Brown, Forbes Magazine, 11 November 1991, p. 377, in situ in the Boston home of the present owner below the Spoilum (Guan Zuolin) School painting of Thomas Jefferson also offered in this sale, lot 154 Exhibited: Peabody Museum, Salem Massachusetts (now the Peabody Essex Museum), Chinese Export Art: Highlights of a Private Collection, 1986-1988 De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 22 – September 16, 1979 出處： 倫敦蘇富比，1979 年五月 11 日，拍品第 55 號 麻州波士頓 Richard Milhender 藏，1979 年至今 出版記錄： Kee Il Choi Jr., 特邀策展人，《中國貿易：羅曼史與現實》，麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年，第 21 頁 Carl L. Crossman, 《中國貿易與裝飾藝術：繪畫、傢俱、異國珍奇》，骨董藏家俱樂部，英國薩福克郡，1991 年，第 231 頁，彩版 84 The Magazine Antiques 雜志，1992 年二月，Carl L. Crossman 文《中國外銷傢俱》第 336-337 頁，圖 IX Christie Brown, Forbes Magazine, 1991 年十一月 11 日，第 377 頁，攝於此藏家的波士頓居所，與本次拍賣的拍品第 154 號的關作霖畫派傑弗遜畫像一同入鏡 展出記錄： 麻州塞勒姆，皮博迪博物館《中國外銷藝術：私人收藏精粹》，1986-1988 麻州林肯 De Cordova 博物館，1979 年 6 月 22 日至 9 月 16 日 Carl L. Crossman, op. cit, 'China Trade Furniture', p. 337, notes that this chair whilst based on an English example and probably made for the English market, has elaborately joinery characteristic of Chinese craftsmanship. In Kee Il Choi's important reference work, The China Trade: Romance and Reality, an exhibition organized by the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts in collaboration with The Museum of the American China Trade, Milton, Massachusetts, this chair is illustrated alongside an informative footnote and a diagram of the joint between the back uprights and the seat which are joined by an inter-locking pegged splice joint reinforced with iron ties. The inner front corners are lined with curved wooden braces and the inner corners are secured with angle blocks. The construction of this elaborate joint, importantly, is a typically Chinese one. In Gustave Ecke's groundbreaking publication, Chinese Domestic Furniture, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, 1962, the author termed this a 'cogged scarf joint', p. 154, figs. 22a and 22b. Robert Ellsworth identified it more precisely as a 'double tongue-and-groove, half-lapped, pressure pegged joint'. Interestingly, a chair identical to ours is illustrated by Christopher Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, pp.491-492, cat. no. 647, is constructed utilizing the same Chinese joinery methods and may have once formed part of a larger set. For other extremely rare examples of similar type made in China for export to England (primarily) and displaying a rare hybrid of English design and Chinese construction from locally sourced timber and taking several stylistic cues from domestic Chinese furniture, see Bonhams, London, 20 November 2013, lot 47 for a George II 'Anglo-Chinese' huanghuali armchair with vase splat with acanthus decoration; and lot 48 for a pair of huanghuali side chairs; and Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 1996, lot 242, for a pair of Queen Anne style padouk wood si